Tucked high on the mist-capped ridges of Yunnan’s southern mountains, where the Mekong carves silver ribbons through subtropical ...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Mountains thrust their granite shoulders into the humid Fujian sky, grows the...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong; few realize that the very first...

Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching in older texts—is the single green tea most Chinese households reserve for honored guests and t...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has quietly embodied the elegance of Ch...

Tucked into the southern folds of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where the mist clings to karst peaks and the Liu Rive...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least assertive yet the most elusive, a quiet poem written in silve...

Rising like a jade dragon’s spine through the clouds of central Taiwan, the Alishan mountain range has, for almost two centuries,...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and eyes light ...

Biluochun, whose name translates literally to “Green Snail Spring,” is one of China’s ten most celebrated teas, yet it remains a ...